OR Hezbollah announced on Tuesday morning that it had launched a new barrage of rockets towards the north Israel at dawn, noting that it hit three important airbases (Ramat David, Meggido, Amos) in its area After all. War sirens also sounded in Galilee near Haifa.

At the same time, as noted by israeli armed forcestwo more rockets were fired from the border of Lebanon towards the city of Nahariya, but they fell into the sea. According to the IDF, there were no reports of casualties or injuries.

It was preceded by a hammering by Hezbollah in the northern part of Israel with more than 20 rockets hitting the area, in three successive phases. The attacks were intercepted by Israeli air defenses.

On Tuesday morning (Greece time), the Israeli army announced that it responded with a new airstrike on the Hezbollah hideout in southern Lebanon, from where the strike in Afola took place.

Nearly 500 dead in Lebanon in heaviest Israeli shelling in recent year

Heavy airstrikes by the Israeli armed forces against Hezbollah killed at least 492 people in Lebanon on Monday, including 35 children, according to authorities in the country, which experienced its deadliest day in nearly a year of border fire, alongside the war in the Gaza Strip.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “very seriously concerned” about the number of civilian casualties in southern and eastern Lebanon that have been pounded by the Israeli armed forces, his spokesman said on Monday, as the international community increasingly fears strongly that the escalation of the conflict between Israel and the powerful Lebanese movement Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, will lead to a regional conflagration.

In New York, where the UN General Assembly is being held, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barro announced yesterday that Paris would demand an emergency “convening of the Security Council for Lebanon within the week”.

“We are on the brink of total war,” warned EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

The death toll did not stop getting heavier as the hours passed yesterday. “The airstrikes killed 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, and wounded another 1,645,” the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced in the evening.

On the other hand, the Israeli military spoke of a “large number” of Hezbollah members who were killed.

In total, the operation dubbed “Northern Arrows” hit “about 1,600” positions of “terrorists” in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley yesterday, he clarified late last night, among the “hundreds of targets” that were hit. in the last hours”.

New flight cancellations to and from Israel

In the meantime, airlines such as Wizz Airh British Airways and the Azerbaijan Airlineshave proceeded to cancel flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

Concerns about a wider conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region or avoid Lebanese airspace.

As reported by Reuters, some of the airlines that have adjusted their services to and from the region are Air France, Air India, Air Algerie, Lufthansa, Ryanair and others.